I'm not covering the blather about stopping an invasion since it's happening before our eyes:
"Turkey continues attacks on border; Meets with US, Iraq officials to ease the crisis" by Joshua Partlow/Washington Post October 26, 2007
BAGHDAD - The Turkish military said it continued attacks yesterday against Kurdish separatists in mountainous areas along the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated yesterday that his government does not have "to seek anyone's permission" to launch cross-border operations into Iraq and criticized allies for refusing to do more to curb the activities of the separatists.
Erdogan said in Bucharest during a joint news conference with Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu:
"The ball is in our court now and we will have to do what is necessary on our own if those who have the responsibility do not take action."
Turkey has dispatched warplanes and helicopters to its southern border with Iraq and shelled the mountainous terrain.
Turkish artillery has been firing at suspected insurgent positions across the Iraqi border for days, and government aircraft have fired on rebels inside Turkey, according to Turkish news agencies. Turkish television showed video of smoke rising from three villages in northern Iraq that were purportedly hit yesterday.
The military reported yesterday on its website that 64 Kurdish rebels had been killed since Sunday.
[Body count, or...]
Turkey has threatened to invade Iraq. Erdogan criticized Turkey's European allies for failing "a sincerity test" in helping his country fight PKK activities:
"Unfortunately, the terrorist organization has been establishing associations in several European countries, receiving financial support and our European friends are employing delaying tactics by refusing to hand over the PKK operatives they captured to Turkey."
[ P.J.A.K.]
US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker called on the Iraqi government yesterday to do more to isolate the PKK inside their mountainous hideouts in northern Iraq. He said the Iraqi government needed to make clear it would not accept a terrorist organization attacking other countries from its territory.
Crocker told reporters at the US Embassy in Baghdad:
"I don't think it's realistic to expect that the Iraqis are going to march up that mountain and take on the PKK and their position or arrest their leaders. I think that's in the 'too hard to do' category."
[Yeah, it's "too hard," because they are getting after Iran, huh?]
"But it is reasonable to expect the Iraqis to use all the means that they have to monitor PKK movements, including roads, airports, what not, to make an active effort to try to learn what travel patterns may be and be prepared to act if these guys come down out of that mountain."
[Translation: Become a police state and turn in your kill you brother, uncle, friend, whatever, Kurd.
And who knows what the bombings are doing to your wives and children.
Everybody betrays you; no wonder you guys don't trust anyone!]
Crocker declined to speculate about the potential American response to a Turkish invasion of Iraq.
Turkey seems willing to refrain from a big attack until at least early next month. Erdogan is expected to go to Washington afterward for talks with President Bush.
Erdogan said yesterday that the United States should repay Turkish assistance for the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 by supporting Turkey's struggle against the Kurdish rebels, who have demanded autonomy and more democratic rights for Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
[Or what? You guys gonna bail on Afghanistan? And George, WTF?]
The army reported a clash with rebels earlier in the week. It said a "group of terrorists" was spotted preparing an attack near a military outpost in Semdinli province close to Iraq on Tuesday and troops opened fire with tank cannon, artillery, and other heavy weapons.
[I smell a false-flag!]
The PKK denied suffering any casualties and called the military statement a "lie," the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency said.
[Kurds are SMART!]
The separatists in Turkey use mountain bases in Iraq to rest, train, and get supplies in relative safety before returning to Turkey to attack government forces in the heavily Kurdish southeast.
Erdogan's government is facing growing domestic pressure to move against the rebels, who have stepped up violence in recent weeks. Tens of thousands of Turks have joined in demonstrations or attended funerals for slain troops this week to demand tough action.
[Military has the population all in a frazzle!]
APTN cameramen reported several groups of Turkish F-16 fighters flying out of the air base at Diyarbakir and two F-4s flying low along the frontier yesterday, a day after Turkish warplanes reportedly pounded rebel positions on the Turkish side of the border.
More than 10 attack helicopters flew over Hakkari province as government-paid village guards in camouflage, wielding AK-47 assault rifles, patrolled below on roads leading to the border."
[Certainly smells like, looks like, tastes like, an invasion!]
"U.S. Envoy Presses Iraq to Act Against Guerrillas" by JAMES GLANZ and ANDREW KRAMER
BAGHDAD, Oct. 25 — Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker said Thursday that Iraq should disrupt supply lines and develop a “lookout list” of senior leaders for the Kurdish guerrillas who use the northern Iraqi mountains as a safe haven for attacks inside Turkey.
Mr. Crocker said any Iraqi military expedition, would run into the geographic fact that the northern mountains, called the Qandeel range, are remote and inaccessible:
“I don’t think it’s realistic to expect that the Iraqis are going to march up that mountain and take on the P.K.K. and arrest their leaders. This is in the hard-to-do category.”
[As opposed to what, invading Iraq?]
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, asked the United States on Thursday to take action along with Turkey in the struggle against the guerrillas, saying that the United States had taken action against Iraq with less immediate provocation.
[Back-handed insult to America, huh, from our friend!]
Erdogan, at a news conference during an official visit to Romania:
“One would question why America has come to Iraq from thousands of miles away. We have a disturbance. What kind of disturbance did the United States have with Iraq? Right now, the United States, as our strategic ally, is in a position to act along with us. We acted along with them in Afghanistan.”
['Cause of YOUR ALLY ISRAEL, silly!]
Mr. Erdogan insisted that the decision was up to Turkey, not the United States:
“They can suggest that a military operation not be conducted, but we make the decision whether we need to do it or not.”
[Uppity Turks! Only USrael is allowed that right!]
Mr. Crocker, meeting with Western reporters at the American Embassy in Baghdad, also made extensive remarks on Iran and, for the first time, on the Sept. 16 shooting on Nisour Square in Baghdad involving Blackwater USA, a private security firm that protects American diplomats. According to the Iraqi government, 17 Iraqis were killed in that incident and 24 were wounded.
[Everything always comes back to Iran with these bastards!
But we ain't going to war with 'em, they say!
Pffffftttt!]
Just before the Nisour Square shooting, Mr. Crocker had strongly defended the use of security contractors like Blackwater in testimony to Congress. Asked Thursday if he now thought better of those comments, Mr. Crocker at first said:
Mr. Crocker expressed serious concern over what happened, but did not address whether the shooting was justified:
“These guys guard my back. I have to say they do it extremely well. That said, the incident in September was a horrific one.”
[And if you don't defend them, they may shoot you in the back, huh, Crocker?
How many other "horrific" episodes we don't know about?]
As the chief official at the Embassy, Mr. Crocker said, “I’m responsible,” but he said that he would wait until an F.B.I. investigation is finished to draw conclusions.
[You're RESPONSIBLE?!
Then we know who to FIRE and charge with MURDER, don't we?]
Mr. Crocker reiterated assertions by the United States that Iran was providing support to armed groups in Iraq, and raised a new concern that elements of the Mahdi Army, which is nominally under the control of the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, have moved from militant activities to financially profitable activities such as gas stations and basic services in neighborhoods.
[Doing Israel's bidding AGAIN!!!
And SO WHAT?!
The Mahdi live there, in case you didn't know, and they have a right to participate in the "democracy."
So if it's not "CIA-Duh," it's "Mahdis."
All so we will NEVER LEAVE, folks!
I'm tired of the lies, readers]]
That shift suggests, Mr. Crocker said, a “Hezbollahzation” of parts of Iraq: an emphasis not just on military force but also on social networks, the hallmark of Iranian-supported Hezbollah in Lebanon."
[Pffffft! Zionist bullshit!
So what does AmeriKa call it when it does all those things?
Aid and support, right?
But only AmeriKa can do that -- ship money all over the world to support our killers, while the country falls apart at home!
People hate us because we DON'T PROVIDE SERVICES!!!
Our aid gets STOLEN!!!!]
